The Windhoek Observer News Editor, Nyasha Francis Nyaungwa (NN), recently sat down with the SWAPO Party Executive Director, Austin Samupwa (AS), to find out what he has been up to since his appointment in March last year. Samupwa spoke at length about his mandate and how he intends to modernise the ruling party and instil a culture of discipline. Below is an excerpt from that interview:

President Hage Geingob has moved to placate communities that lost their ancestral land during colonisation by appointing a 15-member Commission of Inquiry into Claims of Ancestral Land Rights and Restitution on land.

TSXV-listed Namibia Critical Metals, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Kunene Resources Namibia, has signed an agreement with a private Namibian group to allow the pegging of a mining claim covering a small manganese occurrence within EPL 4347 which is held by the company.

In early February, graduates Jason Akwenye, Ashmeen-Lee Cloete and Christiana Namoonde, were announced as the three graduates inducted into Capricorn Group and Bank Windhoek’s revamped Graduate Training Programme (GTP).

Broll Namibia, a subsidiary of the Ohlthaver & List (O&L) Group, says N$330 million has been spent to date to complete the on-going Wernhil Park Phase 4 expansion project, an amount which is inline with its budget estimates.

This week, IUM Founder and Chairperson, former Minister of Education, David Namwandi, made a speech at the opening of his university’s Nkurenkuru Campus’ academic year, posing a vital question: how is it that high unemployment in Namibia is not a major issue? We echo his query.